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Environmental Regression in 2017: What Needs to Change
Have we reached the point where we can do nothing to stop climate change? In November 2017, over 15 000 scientists…
Seeking Refuge in a Warming World
In 2015, millions of Syrian refugees fled their war-torn country in search of peace and security. The vast majority…
Green Bonds: How to Fund Climate Change Initiatives
As the OECD’s fourth Green Investment Financing Forum convened in Paris on the 24th and 25th of October 2017, much…
Bonn 2017: The Two-Sided Face of the United States and…
The historic outcome of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord was a triumphant rallying cry for many as the world’s first…
From Cars to Crops: Detroit’s Sustainable…
Previously, this series highlighted the success of San Francisco’s sustainability initiatives that have not only…
Conditional Empowerment: Shifting Community Land Rights…
Pastoralism has been a key feature of East African savannas for millennia. Herders in Kenya practice mobile…
Review’s Radio: Dr. Angel Hsu (Yale University) on…
In China today, as much as 16% of soil is contaminated by toxic pollutants. Anica Lanzi speaks with Dr. Angel Hsu,…
A Closer Look at the Alleged “War on Coal”…
The poisonous relationship with coal that individuals in poverty-stricken regions make it a difficult subject to…
Repealing the Clean Power Plan: A Step in the Wrong…
On the 10th of October, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced “the war on coal is…
Sustainability: More than Just an Environmental Issue
Editor's Note: This article is the first of a series on sustainability by Kara Anderson. Later on, we examine…
Doublethink: While Puerto Rico Collapses, Trump Tweets…
In the few days following Hurricane Maria’s catastrophic landfall in Puerto Rico, US news media were dominated by…
The Horn of Africa: Black Rhino conservation in Kenya…
The State of Rhinos in Africa
Global rhino populations today are a tenth of what they were at the…